Generally is say the post-secondary education institution in the U.S. is riding on the laurels of decades past. College use to have a higher bar to entry - standards were higher and the commitment was stronger, and kids of college age were on average more mature. Now that the experience has been wholly commercialized, children who have no business in higher learning are encouraged by the secondary effects of an at one time well meaning propaganda campaign to take on debts they are unlikely to benefit from even in majors which are clearly useless to both individuals and society at large.